Flour-sieve.



PATENTED OCT. 6, 1903 INVENTOR Aflorzzqy I a co m mu E. M. JONES.

FLOUR SIBVE.

APPLIUATION rum: sum. 26, 1902 no MODEL.

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@711 TNESSES UNITED STATES Patented Cotober 6, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

FLOU R-SIEVE.

$IECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 740,439, dated October 6, 1903. Application filed September 26, 1902. Serial l lo. 124,999. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be itrknown that I, EDITH M. JONES, residing at Manomet, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flour- Sieves; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. 7 v.

This invention relates to sieves for household use in connection with flour for pastry and other similar fine gnaterial; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of the parts hereinafter fully describedand claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section through the sieve. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the sieve.

A is a lower cylinder provided with a flange a at its'bottom and two strengthening-beads b and c at its middle parts.

B is a wire-gauze sheet secured close above the lower bead b.

Cris across-bar secured to the cylinder A under the gauze sheet B.

D is an upper cylinder, the lower end portion of which is slidable over the upper end portion of the cylinder A into contact with the upper head 0, which forms a stop for it. A head 01 is formed at the middle part of the cylinder D to stiffen it, and E is a sheet of wire-gauze secured to the cylinder D close above the head (1-. The top 6 of the cylinder D is inclined, and f is a handle on the shorter side of the cylinder D.

G is a cross-bar secured in the upper part of the cylinder D.

H is a shaft which is journaled in the crossbars G and C and provided with a handle h for revolving it. 1 represents arms secured on the shaft H above the gauze sieve E, and i represents arms secured on the shaft H in the cylinder A above the gauze sieve B.

J is a collar on the shaft H, which supports it from one of the cross-bars, and j is a thumbnut screwed on the lower end of the shaft H and holding it in position.

The flour may be dipped out of abarrel with this device, and the flour is then sifted by revolving the shaft H. The lower sieve B is preferably of finer mesh than the upper sieve E, and the flour is sifted twice at a single operation. The lower sieve can be used as a strainer when separated from the upper cylinder.

What I claim iS-- In a sieve, the combination of a lower cylinder provided with a wire-gauze, an. upper cylinder also provided with a wire-gauze, said upper and lower cylinders being telescopically united, a cross-bar above the gauze in the upper cylinder, a cross-bar below the gauze in the lower cylinder, a shaft journaled in said cross-bars and carrying stirrerarms and handle, and a nut secured to the lower end of the shaft to secure the shaft in position and the upper and lower cylinders in adjusted relation.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDITH M. JONES.

W'itnesses:

ERNEST B. JONES, G. W. CHASE. 

